HERSEY, Samuel Freeman, a Representative from Maine; born in Sumner, Oxford County, Maine, April 12,
1812; attended the common schools of Sumner and Buckfield; taught school 1828-1831; was
graduated from Hebron Academy in 1831; removed to Bangor the same year; engaged in the
merchandise business in Lincoln in 1833 and in Milford in 1837; engaged in the lumber business in
Stillwater, Maine, in 1842 and in Bangor in 1850; member of the State house of representatives in
1842, 1857, and 1865; member of the executive council 1852-1854; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1860; member of the Republican National Committee 1864-1868; member of
the State senate in 1868 and 1869; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Maine in 1870; elected as
a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1873, until his
death in Bangor, Maine, February 3, 1875, before the close of the Forty-third Congress; interment in
Mount Hope Cemetery.